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বৃহস্পতিবার, ২৮ ফেব্রুয়ারী, ২০১৩

Communities Predict Teachers, Prison Guards, Elderly Will Feel Pain of Sequester Cuts

The automatic budget cuts of the legislation called the sequester kick in Thursday. While lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have battled to disarm or do away with sequestration, local communities are gearing up to endure the effects such across-the-board cuts will have for them.

Earlier this week, we reported stories from our affiliates in Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Indiana, Maryland and California. Find that story here.

Read on to see what other areas of the country are anticipating losses in the areas of education, water and more.

Job Cuts in the Granite State to Start with Teachers

WMUR reports:

"If sequestration takes effect, estimates are that New Hampshire could lose as many as 6,000 jobs, starting with the state's teachers. According to the White House, the state would lose more than $1 million in federal money for primary and secondary education.

"Ben Dick of the Manchester Education Association said that in districts like Manchester, N.H., that would mean fewer teachers in the classroom.

"'We are treading water as it is,' he said. 'Funding is at a minimum right now, especially in our school district. And I think that anytime you cut funding to public education, you're really making the job of everybody involved more difficult.'

"The estimates said New Hampshire would also stand to lose more than $2 million for children with disabilities, putting roughly 30 related jobs on the chopping block. Also, Head Start programs for more than 100 New Hampshire students would be eliminated."

Water and Sewage Treatment Services to Suffer Under Cuts

WVEC's Cleve Bryan reports:

"The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says funding will be in trouble for the Chesapeake Bay Clean Water Blueprint if cuts begin March 1.

"'Right now is a critical time for Chesapeake Bay restoration. We have a great plan in place. We've started to see it implemented,' said Christy Everett, CBF's Hampton Roads, Va., director.

"Everett says that grant money from Washington helps with sewage treatment plant upgrades, technical assistance to farmers who want to put in pollution control practices, and funding to local governments to prevent stormwater pollution."

Cuts Will Hurt Elderly

WPLG's Christina Vazquez reports:

"Organizations throughout South Florida are preparing for how the automatic budget cuts taking place March 1 will impact on the region.

"Edith Lederberg runs the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Broward County, which disperses federal funds to county programs that help seniors. She said the sequester would cut nearly $4 million statewide from organizations that feed the elderly, and $8 million total to programs that impact seniors.

"One of those organizations is Feeding South Florida. It's now increasing efforts to tap into a pool of private donors in anticipation of the potential loss.

"'The meals have to come from somewhere,' said Paco Velez, chief executive officer of Feeding South Florida."

Uncertainty Over Sequester Shuts Down Air Show

WRTV's Jenna Kooi reports:

"The 2013 Indianapolis Air Show has been canceled, with organizers citing sequester concerns.

"The show, scheduled for June 15-16 at Indianapolis Regional Airport near Mt. Comfort, Ind., was expected to feature the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels, but the team would be grounded as part of sequestration, organizers noted.

"'Due to budget uncertainties resulting from the threat of sequestration and its impact on military participation at our show, all of which are beyond our control, we have been forced to make the very difficult decision to cancel the 2013 Indianapolis Air Show,' Robert Duncan, chairman of the show's executive committee, said in a news release.

"Duncan said sponsors began dropping out when news spread the Blue Angels might be grounded.

"'We had one $10,000 sponsor drop out yesterday,' he said."

Prison Guards Fear for Safety

Q&A: Moving iTunes Libraries - NYTimes.com

How do I transfer my iTunes library from a desktop PC to a laptop, neither of which are Apple computers?

All the items in your iTunes library, like music, TV shows and podcasts, are stored in folders on the computer. The iTunes software itself, which is basically a big database program crossed with a media player, displays the items in your library in lists and makes it relatively easy to manage your collection.

To move your library to a new computer, you just need to move your iTunes library folder from the old machine to the new one with a copy of the iTunes software installed. You can do this in several ways depending on how you use iTunes ? including transferring all the files over your network with the Home Sharing feature, copying your iTunes folder to an external hard drive or set of DVDs for transport between computers, or transferring content from the iTunes Store with an iPod, iPad or iPhone.

Apple has step-by-step, illustrated instructions for all these moving methods (and others) on its site. If you plan to get rid of the old computer, be sure to deauthorize it for use with your iTunes purchases, as explained here.

Source: http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/qa-moving-itunes-libraries/

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Samsung Series 7 (DP700A3D-A01US)

Is this an all-in-one desktop PC or a 23-inch HDTV? Well, the price of the Samsung Series 7 (DP700A3D-A01US) ($1,099.99) is a dead giveaway, but you'd be forgiven thinking it's an HDTV if you approach it when it's showing HD videos. Like the latest round of Samsung Smart TVs, the system has a sculpted silver metallic stand and slim screen profile. The DP700A3D is a very good system for media consumption, with a clear and bright display for videos, photos, and webs sites. It takes a few concessions to come in less expensive than rivals, but unless you're a heavy media creation user, you're unlikely to notice. It's system for those who want an all-in-one desktop that you can hide in plain sight rather than hide away.

Design and Features
The DP700A3D has the look of one of Samsung's new HDTVs, like the Samsung UN55ES8000F. Both have curved, silver-colored stands shaped like a sculpted rectangular oval supporting the screen. The DP700A3D tilts from straight up to lean back about 30 degrees. It's not quite as versatile as say the tilt on the Dell XPS One 27 Touch ($2,599), but then again, the SP700A3D isn't anywhere close to being that expensive. The DP700A3D measures about 23 by 17 by 7 inches (HWD), so it will fit on most work surfaces.

The 23.6-inch LED backlit screen is clear, with just a touch of reflectiveness on the surface. The ten-point touch screen is responsive and reacts quickly to Windows 8 gestures and finger taps. It's very clear and bright, with a wide viewing angle both horizontally and vertically. This is likely due to Samsung's ability to source HDTV-quality panels from its own factories.

The system has I/O ports under a door on the right side of the screen, as well as on the back panel of the system (sort of). The ports on the right are under an easily opened door, and they include the system's SD card slot, two USB 3.0 ports, microphone jack, and headphone jack. The door is a nice touch, since when closed the PC still looks like a HDTV.

The ports on the back are a little more problematic. They are all on the bottom of a crossbar, so you have to plug cables "up" into the crossbar. This can be an issue if you have dexterity problems or limited space around your system, or if you're constantly connecting and disconnecting cables. The ports in the back include a Kensington security slot, Ethernet, HDMI out, HDMI in, three USB 2.0 ports, and the system's speakers. A memory cover on the back panel can be unscrewed and removed to reveal the system's memory slots (both filled). The right side of the screen holds the system's tray-loading DVD burner.

The system we tested came with a wireless keyboard and mouse, which use a USB dongle that can be plugged into one of the USB 2.0 ports in the back of the system. The system uses an external AC adapter, and while that power brick can be unsightly if left out, it also means that the screen with the PC components built in is only about an inch-and-a-quarter thick. The system comes with a one-year warranty.

The DP700A3D is well suited for media entertainment. It comes with 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4GHz and 5GHz) Wi-Fi so you can connect it to a less crowded frequency in your area. The DVD drive can be used to playback older movies, though we would've liked to have seen a Blu-ray player on this media-oriented system. The built-in speakers lacked a subwoofer, but they still pumped out a decent amount of sound, and the included Dolby audio software helps shape the sound for movies, games, or music. Plugging in an external settop box was easy, thanks to the HDMI-in port, and you can even hook the PC up to an external HDTV with the HDMI-out port.

Touch-sensitive soft keys silkscreened on the front of the system control all onscreen functions like brightness, source (HDMI-in), disc eject, and system volume. The DP700A3D is a bit better equipped than rivals like the Lenovo IdeaCentre B540 (899.99) and Apple iMac 21.5-Inch (Late 2012) ($1,299), both of which lack an HDMI-in port. If you need more than just the HDMI-in port, the Dell Inspiron One 23 ($1199) also comes with VGA in/out and composite AV in.

The system comes with a 1TB hard drive, sufficient for the light to moderate media collector. If you need more space, you can connect external hard drives to the the two USB 3.0 ports on the side. The system comes with a selection of pre-loaded software, including programs like Jamie Oliver recipes, Pinball KX2, Adera, Shark Dash, Fresh Paint, Kindle, Netflix, Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Music Maker Jam, Evernote, Norton Internet Security (60-day trial), Skype, Stumbleupon, S Player, S Camera, Allshare Play, S Service, Support Center, Recovery, and Help Desk. Quick Starter is an interesting program: Initially it brings up an app-loading dock. However, if you dig deeper, you'll see that Quick Starter replicates the behavior of the Windows 7 Start menu, including access to the computer drives, control panel, and programs. It's a nice touch, though you have to know it's there before you're able to use it.

Another feature that is searching for usefulness is the built in Gesture Control that uses the webcam to follow your hand. Yes, you can use the Gesture Control by holding out your hand, then controlling elements on the screen using an open hand/closed fist motion, or swipes, turns, and rotation motions. However, it's nowhere nearly as developed as gesture controls like the hand and arm motions on the Xbox's Kinect peripheral, and your arm will get tired quickly when you need to constantly hold it straight out to register in Gesture Control. In most cases it will be more convenient to physically touch the screen or use the keyboard/mouse.

Performance
The DP700A3D comes with an Intel Core i5-3470T processor with Intel HD Graphics 2500, 6GB of memory, a 1TB hard drive, and Windows 8. The combo is good for decent, if undistinguished scores on our day-to-day performance (PCMark7), multimedia (Handbrake and Photoshop CS6), and processor rendering (CineBench R11.5) tests. It's worth noting that the DP700A3D falls behind the Dell Inspiron One 23, which has a "slower" Core i5 processor, and the Toshiba LX835-D3380 ($1,399), which has a more powerful quad-core processor and discrete 3D graphics.

Both the Dell Inspiron One 23 and DP700A3D use Intel HD Graphics 2500 integrated 3D graphics, which is less capable than the Intel HD Graphics 4000 or Nvidia GeForce discrete graphics in most of the other all-in-ones in this price range. Take a look at our benchmark charts if you're curious, but suffice to say that you'll get good to very good general performance out of the DP700A3D, but don't expect to play current 3D games on it.

The Samsung Series 7 (DP700A3D-A01US) has great styling and a very good feature set. It is less expensive than the Dell Inspiron One 23, which has a similar feature set, though the DP700A3D's monitor brightness and clarity blow the Dell Inspiron One 23 out of the water. Vizio's 24-Inch All-in-One (CA24T-A4) ($1,299) is $200 more expensive and has a similarly nice screen thanks to its HDTV pedigree, but in this case you're really paying extra for the styling. Ultimately, the Apple iMac 21.5-Inch (Late 2012) holds on to its Editors' Choice for midrange all-in-one desktops due to its overall performance, future-proofing technology, and 3D discrete graphics. The DP700A3D is a good choice if you're looking for attractive styling, an equally nice screen, Windows 8 compatibility, and if your needs lean more toward media appreciation rather than media creation.

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The Two Worlds of Personal Finance: Implications for Promoting the ...

Personal finance for low- and middle-income families differs significantly from that of upper-income families, who tend to be the focus of mainstream finance. The assets of low- and middle-income families have less to do with stock and bond portfolios than they do with human capital, social insurance programs, and homeownership. Social welfare policy should be adjusted to acknowledge this reality.

These remarks were originally presented at the "The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing" conference, co-sponsored by the Boston University School of Management, the Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on May 24, 2011. It was first published in Life-Cycle Investing: Financial Education and Consumer Protection (November 2012): 85-96 (doi: 10.2470/rf.v2012.n3.7).

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BP executive testifies at Gulf oil spill trial

Lamar McKay, former president of BP America and current chief executive of BP's Upstream unit, left, leaves Federal Court after testifying in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. McKay, who was president of BP America at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, became the first BP executive to testify at the federal trial intended to identify the causes of BP's Macondo well blowout and assign percentages of blame to the companies involved. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Lamar McKay, former president of BP America and current chief executive of BP's Upstream unit, leaves Federal Court after testifying in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013. McKay, who was president of BP America at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, became the first BP executive to testify at the federal trial intended to identify the causes of BP's Macondo well blowout and assign percentages of blame to the companies involved. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Lamar McKay, former president of BP America and current chief executive of BP's Upstream unit, leaves Federal Court after testifying in New Orleans, Monday, Feb. 25, 2013. McKay, who was president of BP America at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, became the first BP executive to testify at the federal trial intended to identify the causes of BP's Macondo well blowout and assign percentages of blame to the companies involved. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) ? A ranking BP executive testified Tuesday that the London-based oil giant and its contractors share the responsibility for preventing blowouts like the one that killed 11 workers and spawned the nation's worst offshore oil spill in 2010.

Lamar McKay, who was president of BP America at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, became the first BP executive to testify at a federal trial intended to identify the causes of BP's Macondo well blowout and assign percentages of blame to the companies involved.

Rig owner Transocean and cement contractor Halliburton also are defendants at trial, which opened Monday.

A plaintiffs' attorney pressed McKay to agree with him that BP bore ultimate responsibility for the blowout, but McKay insisted that managing the hazards of deepwater drilling are a "team effort."

"I think that's a shared responsibility, to manage the safety and the risk," said McKay, now chief executive of BP's Upstream unit. "Sometimes contractors manage that risk. Sometimes we do. Most of the time it's a team effort."

McKay also defended BP's internal probe of the spill, which outlined a series of mistakes by rig workers and faulted decisions by other companies but didn't assign any blame to BP's upper-level management.

"I think it was a substantial investigation," McKay said. "I think we've learned what we can from the accident and we're trying to put those things into practice right now."

McKay, whose testimony will resume Wednesday, called the disaster a "tragic accident" resulting from a "risk that was identified."

It wasn't the first time McKay testified under oath about the spill. He appeared before Congress less than a month after the explosion.

U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier is hearing the case without a jury. Barring a settlement, Barbier will decide how much more money BP and other companies owe for their roles in the disaster.

McKay's testimony followed that of an expert witness for people and businesses suing the company. University of California-Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea testified that BP PLC didn't implement a 2-year-old safety management program on the rig, which exploded on April 20, 2010.

"It's a classic failure of management and leadership in BP," said Bea, a former BP consultant who also investigated the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill and New Orleans levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

BP has said its "Operating Management System" was designed to drive a rigorous and systematic approach to safety and risk management. During cross-examination by a BP lawyer, Bea said the company made "significant efforts" to improve safety management as early as 2003.

However, the plaintiffs say BP only implemented its new safety plan at just one of the seven rigs the company owned or leased in the Gulf at the time of the disaster.

Bea said it was "tragic" and "egregious" that BP didn't apply its own safety program to the Deepwater Horizon before the Macondo well blowout. Transocean owned the rig; BP leased it.

BP lawyer Mike Brock said the company allows contractors like Transocean to take the primary responsibility for the safety of rig operations as long as the contractor's safety system is compatible with BP's ? an arrangement that Brock suggested is a standard industry practice.

In his May 2010 congressional testimony, McKay said BP's Operating Management System is "as good as anyone."

"I know of nothing that points me in a direction that we have deficiencies" in the system, McKay said.

As he questioned Bea, Brock recited a long list of steps that BP took to improve safety, citing them as evidence that the company wasn't "cutting corners" on safety.

A plaintiffs' lawyer showed Bea a transcript of a deposition of Tony Hayward, BP's CEO at the time of the disaster. Hayward was asked if the blowout could have been averted if BP had implemented the safety management program in the Gulf.

"There is possible potential," Hayward responded. "Undoubtedly."

Bea said BP's "culture of every dollar counts" was reflected in a May 2009 email sent by BP well team leader John Guide: "The DW Horizon embraced every dollar matters since I arrived 18 months ago," Guide wrote. "We have saved BP millions and no one had to tell us."

"Financially, BP had the resources to effectively put into place a process safety system that could have prevented the Macondo disaster," Bea testified.

BP has already pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges and has racked up more than $24 billion in spill-related expenses, including cleanup costs, compensation for businesses and individuals, and $4 billion in criminal penalties.

Plaintiffs' attorney Robert Cunningham read portions of the plea agreement as he pressed McKay to say how much responsibility BP takes for the catastrophe. Cunningham noted that nothing in the document assigns blame to specific BP executives.

"That is not written in there. That's true," McKay said.

Two BP rig supervisors, however, have been indicted on manslaughter charges for the workers' deaths and are awaiting a separate trial.

"There were some misinterpretations and mistakes made" on the rig, McKay said.

One of the biggest questions facing Barbier is whether BP acted with gross negligence.

Under the Clean Water Act, a polluter can be forced to pay a minimum of $1,100 per barrel of spilled oil; the fines nearly quadruple to about $4,300 a barrel for companies found grossly negligent, meaning BP could be on the hook for nearly $18 billion.

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Ben Stiller returning to 'Arrested Development' for Netflix revival

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - It looks like Ben Stiller will be adding a little more Wonder to "Arrested Development."

"Night at the Museum" star Stiller has signed on to return for the upcoming season of "Arrested Development" for an episode, a spokeswoman for Netflix told TheWrap on Tuesday.

While Netflix would not confirm character details, which has generally been the case for guest stars on the upcoming season of "Arrested Development," it's a pretty safe bet that Stiller will reprise his role as magician Tony Wonder, a character he portrayed on two episodes of the series during its original Fox run.

Stiller joins a swelling list of guest stars for the revival that includes Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, "Mad Men" star John Slattery and Conan O'Brien. Henry Winkler and Liza Minnelli have also signed on to reprise their roles as Bluth family attorney Barry Zuckerkorn and Lucille Austero, respectively.

The show might as well pack in as many guest stars as it can - the 14-episode season, which will premiere in its entirety on Netflix in May, will likely be the final one, at least on Netflix.

Speaking at Morgan Stanley's Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco on Monday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said, "It's a fantastic one-off ... Think about it as a non-repeatable amazing."

EW.com first reported the news of Stiller's "Arrested Development" return.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ben-stiller-returning-arrested-development-netflix-revival-005515651.html

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Maintenance Of The Plumbing And Swimming Pool | Home ...

Children?s pool plumbing accounts for the running of all of the departments of the pools, for instance pool filtration, pool cleaning, chlorination systems, waterfalls, pool/spa heating, spa jets/air, skimmers, aerators, auto water-levelers, drains/returns. You may refer to http://www.plumbin.co.nz/ for more services.

Children?s pool Plumbing mainly includes the flitting of pumps, plumbing runs, auto water levelers, filters, gas heaters, and chlorinators. Your pumps include the way to obtain water for ones pools. The length of your pools is the ingredient that determines the right horsepower from the pumps. You should pumps exactly according the dimensions the length of your plumbing runs, other wise you can be paying higher monthly electricity bills.

Your plumbing runs cost depend on the length of your plumbing runs; more the space, more you will end up paying. Your pool run substructures offer the main type in receiving the best pools. So, these really need to create the perfect ways to get effective results. The automobile Water Levelers (AWLs) of this pools are utilized the hoses that happen to be helpful to fill your pools. Usually, 3/4? PVC hookups are widely-used to link up AWLs. Auto Water Levelers include the devices that monitor water amount of your pools and automatically refill your pools if your level dips below the specific level.

You may put your heaters the locations best suiting for your pools, your heaters must be at least four feet in the property line. Good U.S. state codes, the exhaust vent of the heater unit need to be 4 feet in the property line. The unit itself could be from the 4 foot boundary, but is not the exhaust vent. Choose the right plumber to help you.

Skimmers can also be chosen in line with the sizes of this pools. Skimmers skim off/suck the leaves along with other debris floating within the top of the water of this pools. Skimmers are installed right with the water lines to ensure at normal levels, the pool water is about halfway up their mouths. Other debris settles because of the base where your pool vacs can suck it up. The main drains are linked with the base of the skimmers.

The drains are generally accustomed to provide enough water from the pool for filtration. Usually 2? PVC are employed to all skimmer plumbing. Like for example, the runs from your equipment to the skimmers and from your skimmers to your main drains. The pipes that return filtered water back in the pool are known as returns. Water ?sucked? with the pool through the pool vac and/or the skimmer/main drains undergoes the filter and returns the pool distributed through these return pipes. Nowadays, looped returns are run by a lot of pool plumbers to give even water flow distribution; this is called an Anti-Vortex drain. You can always visit http://www.plumbin.co.nz/location/Albany.html for more details.

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Ways To Promote Your Affiliate Link | Content for Reprint

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Affiliate Marketing if you do not know what it is , or how you can work it succesfully tends to frighten and invoke feelings of confusion. In truth, there is no need for the term to evoke the feelings mentioned above. To promote better understanding of affiliate marketing, find below some ways that you can successfully promote you affiliate link

There are 2 reasons why people join affiliate programs, the first reason being obviously to make money depending on the compensation plan which is on offer. The second reason is maybe you want to save money on a personal purchase. When you join an affiliate program you are given a link which is unique to you, you then promote this link, and if you get a sale the product owner knows that the sale came from you, and then sends your share of the sale.

Find outlined below some ways to promote your affiliate website, you can choose to use 1 or indeed ALL of them. There are pros and cons to using each method, so a little caveat, do your due diligence to find which one best suits your personal circumstance.

1. Promote the URL. This is probably the simplest way to start earning with your affiliate link. As previously stated there are both positives and negatives for every method outlined.The advantage to promoting the link as you receive it is that you can start promoting the link straight away as is, you just copy the URL and you can promote it either online or offline.The disadvantage is that the link which you get is very bulky in appearance; it will include your affiliate ID number which is what differentiates you from all the other affiliates who are selling the same product. It simply does not look natural or professional and it is for this reason that some affiliates choose to take another route.

2. Purchase a domain name and have redirected. To do this, you will have to choose a keyword phrase which relates to the theme of the affiliate product you want to promote. For example if the niche product related to growing cactus trees, you could choose cactusgrower.com.You can register a domain name with a domain registration company like GoDaddy.com. Once you have your domain name registered you can then have it redirected to your affiliate URL. You can then promote your new domain name online or offline. Advantage it looks and feels professional and your customer can connect more with your business. Disadvantage, you have to be technically savvy for when problems arise.

3. Build your very own website to promote your affiliate banner. This is the method favoured by most internet marketers.Doing this will require you to register a domain name, Organise web hosting, in days gone by you would have had to build a website, but thanks to development in technology that is not the case anymore, with websites like blogger.com and WordPress.An advantage to doing it this way is that you are in total control of the entire process from finding the products, and choosing how you market your affiliate link or banner. The advantage of this is that it allows you to establish yourself online in whatever your niche may be, establishing yourself as an authority is a sure way to improve your sales.The major disadvantage is the sheer amount of work that you will be partaking setting things up, but don't let this discourage you as the results can be life changing.

4. Using Email marketing. This requires you to build your own email, doing this is a smart way to promote an affiliate product. Your list can be your biggest asset when treated properly and correctly.

It is also possible for you to advertise to other people's list. Whatever you choose to do you can promote your affiliate link via communicating and connecting with on your list, this is the most effective way to get sales.

These are some of the most common ways for you to promote your affiliate link. Using one or more of the methods outlined should see you on your way to making your first sale and beyond. It is a good idea to combine them and see your profits increase.

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1: Understanding Online Business Success

Starting a home based business to earn income online takes a significant amount of time and energy upfront to get things going. Not seeing results immediately can be discouraging and cause people to give up too early. In this article, we look at the process of starting a home based business and working through the frustrations to be there when the sales come flowing in.

2: Why You Need To Build Multiple Streams of Income For Yourself

Being an entrepreneur and earning multiple streams of income is a dream that many have, but in reality it does take some initial hard work to achieve this. Earning multiple streams of income is the wave of the future, and here are some tips and advice for you when you are looking for ways in which to do this for yourself.

3: What is Cyber Marketing And Why It Is So Important For The Success Of Your Website

Cyber marketing has now become an indispensable segment of e-commerce as well as the internet and World Wide Web related topics. Cyber marketing simply refers to a technique of attracting potential customers by advertising your products or services through such means as websites, emails, and banners.

4: Article Marketing Strategy: Putting Together a "Class Schedule" For Your Article Topics

Businesses go to so much trouble when there is one sure-fire, simple, very inexpensive way to attract new clients to a business: Teach a free class. That is what article marketing is like. Your articles are just like free classes. You teach your target readers something helpful in your article. Your resource box then says, "If you enjoyed this article you can visit my website and apply what you have learned."

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If you want your SEO to work you now need to concentrate on appeasing Google Panda, and to do this you need to know what Google Panda's spiders/bots will be looking for. Find out here how to search engine optimise your website for the latest Google Panda algorithm, and achieve the success you deserve.

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Music sales post small rise in 2012, first since '99

LONDON (Reuters) - The music business broke a 12-year losing streak in 2012, posting a small but symbolic 0.3 percent rise in trade revenues to $16.5 billion, figures from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) showed on Tuesday.

The slight increase will come as a relief to record label bosses who have watched the value of sales plummet from a peak of $28.6 billion in 1999, as illegal downloads and a reluctance to embrace the digital age hit revenues hard.

Once again it was the digital sector that showed the strongest growth, and for the first time more than compensated for losses in physical revenues.

"At the beginning of the digital revolution it was a common theme to say digital is killing music," said Edgar Berger, president, international, at Sony Music Entertainment.

"Well the reality is, digital is saving music. I absolutely believe that this marks the start of a global growth story. The industry has every reason to be optimistic about its future."

Record companies' digital sales rose about nine percent last year over 2011 to $5.6 billion and accounted for 34 percent of income overall.

Download sales increased 12 percent to 4.3 billion units globally. Digital album sales rose 17 percent to 207 million.

Subscription services such as Spotify and Deezer "came of age" last year, according to the IFPI, and are expected to cross the 10 percent mark as a share of total digital music revenues for the first time.

Spotify has more than five million paying subscribers compared with three million at the end of 2011, and is the second largest source of digital music revenue in Europe.

Deezer has also expanded rapidly, reaching three million paying subscribers worldwide.

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Executives said the increasing number of digital platforms had helped companies broaden their revenue base, and more services coming on stream were good news for the business.

"Until recently, the vast majority of our revenues came from a handful of countries," said Stu Bergen, head of global marketing, recorded music, at Warner Music Group.

"Today, digital channels mean we can monetize markets worldwide much more effectively."

There are ongoing tensions, however, between record labels and the technology companies who distribute their music, particularly over how revenues are shared and who has the real power in a rapidly shifting business landscape.

According to the IFPI, the most successful album of 2012 was British singer Adele's "21" which sold 8.3 million copies from 18.1 million in 2011.

U.S. artist Taylor Swift came second last year with "Red" (5.2 million), British boyband One Direction took third and fourth positions with "Up All Night" and "Take Me Home" respectively (4.5 million and 4.4 million), and U.S. singer Lana Del Rey came fifth with "Born to Die" (3.4 million).

In the digital singles charts, Canada's Carly Rae Jepsen claimed the crown with "Call Me Maybe" (12.5 million copies sold) followed by Belgian-Australian Gotye with "Somebody That I Used to Know" and Psy of South Korea with "Gangnam Style".

Brazil's Michel Telo was sixth with "Ai Se Eu Te Pego".

While the focus was on growth in the digital sector, physical format sales still accounted for 58 percent of revenues in 2012 down from 61 percent in 2011, and declines in the CD market in many countries continued to pose major challenges.

The IFPI, which represents the recorded music industry led by three "major" labels Universal, Sony and Warner Music Group, also stressed the role the music industry played in the broader digital and social media explosion.

It said the top four figures in terms of Twitter followers were pop stars - Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Rihanna - followed by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Officials vowed to continue their fight against online piracy by urging Internet service providers to block access to illegal sites, demanding search engines to prioritize legal providers and discourage advertisers from featuring commercials on illegal sites.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/music-sales-post-small-rise-2012-first-since-130921716.html

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It's bad news if you're a rabid Legend of Zelda fan. It turns out there's only one of these brilliant Hylian shield backpacks available from Ivana Roso's Etsy store. So if you've got $60 to spare, and are quick on the 'Add to Cart' draw, you can snatch it up and save your own princess from having to carry her books to class. More »

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The 411 on several types of auto insurance | CulturaPopulara.ro

The fundamental reasons why anyone requires auto insurance is for security for both you and your car. Depending on your local area you?ve numerous alternatives to pick from for the type of auto insurance you need. Today initially, it can be complicated with the myriad of options open to customers. But by getting an understanding of the various types of auto insurances, the job is certainly made easier.

Besides a number of states, most of the others demand a small amount of liability insurance. When you are accountable for any injury this kind of insurance is especially meant to protect the residents of the other car. It covers their medical expenses and car repair however, not you or your vehicle. On your own, the insurance you will need is comprehensive or accident insurance.

Car insurance estimates for collision insurance are greater than liability insurance due mainly to the fact that the protection is a lot more. It gives for the repairs required for your car as well as your medical bills irrespective of whether or not you had been responsible in a accident. Comprehensive insurance covers a lot of other forms of injury to your vehicle including fireplace, vandalism or natural disasters.

On the basis of the particular conditions, numerous deductibles could be elected for the total estimated annual cost will be altered by that for comprehensive and collision auto insurance quotes.

Medical cost and personal injury protection are also available with some organizations. They raise medical protection and sometimes even cover lost wages, childcare costs and related expenses due to accidents.

Actual injury coverage can be an crucial coverage along with the minimum requirement coverage. This really is for car accidents where you?re to blame and in situations where the injury of one other cars occupants meets their personal injury insurance. Missing this insurance gives the target of the incident the best to appropriate action which may create a economic responsibility being placed by the state you and your car report. This will remain for three years. It is also known as an SR22.

Uninsured motorist and underinsured motorist insurance take care of you when you happen to be in a accident with those that either dont have or have insufficient liability insurance.

Rental payment and towing and labor insurance are other additional choices. These prices usually are classified as add-ons or endorsements to your policy.

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Rare countrywide power blackout hits Pakistan

ISLAMABAD (AP) ? A rare countrywide blackout has left Pakistan without electricity for almost two hours overnight.

The authorities blamed technical problems for the breakdown early on Monday, insisting it was not caused by sabotage.

Rai Sikandar, an official at the ministry of electricity and water, says there was a malfunction at a plant in the country's southwest around midnight Sunday that put pressure on all major power producing systems, which subsequently stopped working.

He says the country "plunged into total darkness" for at least two hours.

Another official, Masood Akhtar, says power was restored to most of Pakistan by midmorning and that a few remaining areas should get it back in a few hours.

Energy-starved Pakistan experiences daily power outages but complete breakdowns are rare.

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Severe budget cuts to hit economy at delicate time (cbsnews)

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Haslam on National GOP Messaging (and he's a Democratic governor's favorite Republican)

Gov. Bill Haslam tells Politico that Republicans didn't do a good job of messaging in the 2012 national elections.

He said that President Barack Obama "was able to say, 'Listen, if you all would just tax rich people, problem solved'" -- and that the Republican Party failed to push back successfully.

"We lost the argument," Haslam said in an interview with POLITICO's Jonathan Martin.
Haslam said the GOP should do a better job of illustrating the problems generated by debt and other economic woes.

"The one message we haven't gotten by is, we're not doing any favors by continuing to pass the debt on down, and we have not done a good job for whatever reason of explaining it," Haslam said. "The second thing we haven't done a good job of explaining is this: Unemployment and economic growth are directly related to business investment. Directly related. And we have not been able to make that connection."

He also acknowledged that the Obama campaign chalked up successes at the ground game level, and called on his party to compete everywhere -- not just in GOP-friendly territory.

Haslam, the governor of a deep-red state, also struck a centrist tone on the topic of immigration. When Martin asked about immigration reform, Haslam said he "actually would" like to see a comprehensive immigration reform bill signed. He said he views the issue through the lens of economic development, and senses that there is the political will to move on the subject.

See also Politico's interview with Connecticut Gov. Dan Malloy, mostly on the Democrat's advocacy of gun control, wherein there is this line:

During his interview with POLITICO, Malloy also slammed Republicans for not negotiating, he said, on sequestration. But he did have kind words for one GOP lawmaker: Malloy named Gov. Bill Haslam (R-Tenn.) when asked about his favorite governor from the other side.

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শনিবার, ২৩ ফেব্রুয়ারী, ২০১৩

Hitler among many unusual names on Indian ballot

GAUHATI, India (AP) ? Adolf Hitler is running for election in India. So is Frankenstein.

The tiny northeast Indian state of Meghalaya has a special fascination for interesting and sometimes controversial names, and the ballot for state elections Saturday is proof.

Hitler has already been elected to the state assembly three times, with little controversy over being named after the Nazi dictator. He points out that he's not an exact match; his middle name is Lu.

Hitler has traveled the world, including to the United States and Germany. He has often been asked by immigration officials why he has that name. He says it wasn't his decision.

India played little role in World War II, and many Indians view Hitler not as the personification of evil but as a figure of fascination.

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6 leaking tanks are Hanford nuke site's latest woe

FILE -- In this March 23, 2004 file photo, workers at the tank farms on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., measure for radiation and the presence of toxic vapors. Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Inslee made the announcement after meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. Last week it was revealed that one of the 177 tanks at south-central Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation was leaking liquids. Inslee called the latest news "disturbing." (AP Photo/Jackie Johnston, File)

FILE - In this July 14, 2010 photo, workers at the Hanford nuclear reservation work around a a tank farm where highly radioactive waste is stored underground near Richland, Wash. Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Inslee made the announcement after meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. Last week it was revealed that one of the 177 tanks at south-central Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation was leaking liquids. Inslee called the latest news "disturbing." (AP Photo/Shannon Dininny, File)

FILE -- In this Feb. 19, 2013 file photo, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., right, tours a facility to treat contaminated groundwater with Energy Department manager Matt McCormick on the Hanford nuclear reservation near Richland, Wash. The facility is a key to cleaning up the highly contaminated site. Six underground radioactive waste tanks at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site are leaking, Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday, Feb. 22, 2013. Inslee made the announcement after meeting with federal officials in Washington, D.C. Last week it was revealed that one of the 177 tanks at south-central Washington's Hanford Nuclear Reservation was leaking liquids. Inslee called the latest news "disturbing." (AP Photo/Shannon Dininny, File)

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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) ? Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding toxic and radioactive wastes are leaking at the country's most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about delays for emptying the aging tanks.

The leaking materials at Hanford Nuclear Reservation pose no immediate risk to public safety or the environment because it would take perhaps years for the chemicals to reach groundwater, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday.

But the news has renewed discussion over delays for emptying the tanks, which were installed decades ago and are long past their intended 20-year life span.

"None of these tanks would be acceptable for use today. They are all beyond their design life. None of them should be in service," said Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a Hanford watchdog group. "And yet, they're holding two-thirds of the nation's high-level nuclear waste."

Just last week, state officials announced that one of Hanford's 177 tanks was leaking 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and rivers. So far, nearby monitoring wells haven't detected higher radioactivity levels.

Inslee then traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss the problem with federal officials, learning in meetings Friday that six tanks are leaking.

The declining waste levels in the six tanks were missed because only a narrow band of measurements was evaluated, rather than a wider band that would have shown the levels changing over time, Inslee said.

"It's like if you're trying to determine if climate change is happening, only looking at the data for today," he said. "Perhaps human error, the protocol did not call for it. But that's not the most important thing at the moment. The important thing now is to find and address the leakers."

Department of Energy spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler said there was no immediate health risk and that federal officials would work with Washington state to address the matter.

Regardless, Sen. Ron Wyden, the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate Hanford's tank monitoring and maintenance program, said his spokesman, Tom Towslee.

The federal government built the Hanford facility at the height of World War II as part of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. The remote site produced plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, and continued supporting the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal for years.

Today, it is the most contaminated nuclear site in the country, still surrounded by sagebrush but with Washington's Tri-Cities of Richland, Kennewick and Pasco several miles downriver.

Several years ago, workers at Hanford completed two of three projects deemed urgent risks to the public and the environment, removing all weapons-grade plutonium from the site and emptying leaky pools that held spent nuclear fuel just 400 yards from the river.

But successes at the site often are overshadowed by delays, budget overruns and technological challenges. Nowhere have those challenges been more apparent than in Hanford's central plateau, home to the site's third most urgent project: emptying the tanks.

Hanford's tanks hold some 53 million gallons of highly radioactive waste ? enough to fill dozens of Olympic-size swimming pools ? and many of those tanks are known to have leaked in the past. An estimated 1 million gallons of radioactive liquid has already leaked there.

The cornerstone of emptying the tanks is a treatment plant that will convert the waste into glasslike logs for safe, secure storage. The plant, last estimated to cost more than $12.3 billion, is billions of dollars over budget and behind schedule. It isn't expected to being operating until at least 2019.

Washington state is imposing a "zero-tolerance" policy on radioactive waste leaking into the soil, Inslee said. So given those delays and the apparent deterioration of some of the tanks, the federal government will have to show that there is adequate storage for the waste in the meantime, he said.

"We are not convinced of this," he said. "There will be a robust exchange of information in the coming weeks to get to the bottom of this."

Inslee and Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, both Democrats, have championed building additional tanks to ensure safe storage of the waste until the plant is completed.

Wyden, D-Ore., toured the site earlier this week. He said he shares the governors' concerns about the integrity of the tanks but he wants more scientific information to determine it's the correct way to spend scarce money.

Wyden noted the nation's most contaminated nuclear site ? and the challenges associated with ridding it of its toxic legacy ? will be a subject of upcoming hearings and a higher priority in Washington, D.C.

The federal government already spends $2 billion each year on Hanford cleanup ? one-third of its entire budget for nuclear cleanup nationally. The Energy Department has said it expects funding levels to remain the same for the foreseeable future, but a new Energy Department report released this week calls for annual budgets of as much as $3.5 billion during some years of the cleanup effort.

There are legal, moral and ethical considerations to cleaning up the Hanford site at the national level, Inslee said, adding that he will continue to insist that the Energy Department completely clean up the site.

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Associated Press writer Dina Cappiello in Washington, D.C., contributed to this report.